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JAMES G. RYAN
CURRICULUM VITAE (as of March 9, 2018)
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Professor (tenured) 9/04-present Texas A&M University at Galveston
Associate Professor (tenured) 9/96-9/04 Department of Liberal Studies
Assistant Professor (tenured) 9/90-9/06 P.O. Box 1675
Galveston, Texas 77553-1675 USA
Office (409) 740-4494
Fax (409) 740-4962
FULBRIGHT TEACHING POSITIONS OVERSEAS:
Fulbright Specialist, Ablay Khan Kazak University of International Relations and World
Languages, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, November 4--December 19, 2009.
Fulbright Senior Specialist, Academia Swietokrzyska im. Jana Kochanowskiego w. Kielcach
(now Jan Kochinowski University) in Kielce, Poland, May 3--June 11, 2006.
IN PROGRESS-- SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE AND EDITED VOLUME:
Co-organizer (with Vernon Pedersen, and Katherine A.S. Sibley) “100 Years of American
Communism” (Sponsored by the Historians of American Communism and the Stanley
Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy at Williams College, Williamstown, MA,
November 9-10, 2018).
REFEREED PUBLICATION (MONOGRAPH):
Earl Browder: The Failure of American Communism (Tuscaloosa & London: The University
of Alabama Press, 1997; paperback, 1999; 2nd edition, with a new introduction, 2005), 332
pages.
Reviewed by:
Michael E. Parrish, “Soviet Espionage and the Cold War” [review essay], Diplomatic
History 25:1 (Winter 2001): 105-20.
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Katherine A. S. Sibley, Continuity: A Journal of History 25 (Fall 2001): 107-12.
Bruce Nelson, American Historical Review 104:1 (February 1999): 213-14.
Fraser Ottanelli, Journal of American History 84:4 (March 1998): 1557-58.
Wlodzimierz Batog, Dzieje Najnowsze 31:1 [Polish journal of modern history] (1999):
205-11.
George Sirgiovanni, Society 94 (May/June 1999), 94-96.
J. A. McCartin, Choice 35:1 (September 1997), 199.
(Unlisted reviewer), Reference & Research Book News (August 1997), 104.
Michael J. Ybarra, "Remembering an American Communist," Washington Monthly
(July/August 1997), 45-48.
Richard Gid Powers, "Wichita Party-Line Man," New Leader (March 24, 1997), 15-17.
John E. Haynes, "Historians Scramble for New Party Lines," Heterodoxy 4:7 (September
1996), 8-9.
Known citations to date: Please see pages 23-27, below.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (EDITED VOLUMES):
James G. Ryan and Leonard Schlup, Historical Dictionary of the 1940s (Armonk, N.Y.:
M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2006), 600 pages.
Reviewed by:
Carol Harless, Booklist (November 1, 2006), 83
(Unlisted reviewer), Reference & Research Book News 21:3 (August 1, 2006), 42.
Allen Reichert, American Reference Books Annual 38 (2007), 354.
Leonard Schlup and James G. Ryan, Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age (Armonk, N.Y.:
M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2003), 658 pages.
Reviewed by:
L.K. Speer, Choice 57 (November 2003), 524.
Boyd Childress, American Reference Books Annual Vol. 36 (2005).
REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Senator Wayne Morse: Early Protestor against the Vietnam War,” article invited by the
editor, Professor William Pederson. In preparation to be a chapter in a book on the
Congress to be published by Louisiana State University at Shreveport in 2018.
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“Independent Abolitionist: John Quincy Adams’s Post-Presidential Career,” article
invited by the editor, Professor William Pederson. In preparation to be a chapter in a
book on the presidency to be published by Louisiana State University at Shreveport in
2018.
“The Oversized Soviet Puppet,” article in preparation to become a chapter in o book by
Mladen Kozul and Clare Kelly of the University of Montana.
“TR, FDR, and Marxian Socialism,” article invited by the editor, Professor William
Pederson. In preparation to be a chapter in a book to be published by Louisiana State
University at Shreveport. In Press.
“The Latest Chapter from America’s Dark Side: Historical Perspective on the Current
Crusade against Great Society and New Deal Legacies” accepted for publication in
William Glass and Bohdan Szklarski, The 1960s: Legacies (University of Warsaw). In
Press.
“Communism Is Twentieth Century Americanism: The Communist Party’s
Americanization Campaign,” in J.Bret Bennington, Zenia Sacks DaSilva, Michael
D’Innocenzo, and Stanislao G. Pugliese, The 1930s: The Reality and the Promise (New
Castle upon Tyne ̧U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Ltd., 2016.), 111-120.
“Historians of American Communism Remain in Denial,” in Thomas Basiuk, Sylwia
Kuzma, and Krystyna Mazur, eds., The American Uses of History: Essays on Public
Memory (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), 293-307.
“Correction to ‘Helen Lowry and Earl Browder,’” (3rd author with John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr)
American Communist History 8:1 (June 2009), 135-36.
“Helen Lowry and Earl Browder: The Genealogy of a KGB Agent and her Relationship to
the Chief of the CPUSA” (2nd author with John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr) American
Communist History 6:2 (December 2007), 229-38.
“Leadership in the Left Lane: Directions and Styles in the Communist Party of the United
States, 1932-1957,” in Hans Krabbendam and Wil Verhoeven, eds., Who’s the Boss?
Leadership and Democratic Culture in America (Amsterdam: VU University Press:
2007), 75-83.
“A 21st Century Look at the Memphis Riots of 1866,” in Zbigniew Lewicki, ed.,
American Freedoms, American (Dis) Orders vol. I (Warsaw, Poland: American Studies
Center, Warsaw University, 2005), 291-303.
“Along the Ideological Frontier: The Limits of American Democracy, the Communist
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Party, and the Need for Historiographical Synthesis,” in Cornelis A. van Minnen and
Sylvia L. Hilton, eds., Frontiers and Boundaries in U.S. History (Amsterdam: VU
University Press, 2004), 185-96.
“A Final Stab at Insurrection: The American Communist Party, 1928-1934,” in Matthew
Worley, ed., In Search of Revolution: International Communist Parties in the Third
Period (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003), 203-19.
“Socialist Triumph as a Family Value: Earl Browder and Soviet Espionage,” American
Communist History 1:2 (December 2002): 125-42.
“Earl Browder and American Communism,” in Randall M. Miller and Paul A. Cimbala,
eds., American Reform and Reformers (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996), 71-82.
"The Memphis Riots of 1866: Terror in a Black Community during Reconstruction,"
Journal of Negro History 62:3 (July 1977): 243-58.
"The Making of a Native Marxist: The Early Career of Earl Browder," Review of Politics
39:3 (July 1977): 332-63.
INVITED, REFEREED REVIEW ESSAYS:
“We Miss You Already, Dan: The Career of Daniel Leab,” Obituary invited by the editor
of American Communist History. In Preparation.
“The Bureau, the Church, and the Party,” American Communist History. 11:2 (2012),
147-152.
“The Superterranean World of British Communist Historiography,” American Communist
History 4:2 (December 2005), 181-185.
“American Communism and Anticommunism: Availability of New Documents and the
Beginnings of an Academic Reassessment,” The Historian 60:2 (Winter 1998): 366-71.
UNREFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
“The Making of a Native Marxist,” International Political Science Abstracts 28:5 (1978),
1313.
“A Communist Tests the First Amendment in Terre Haute,” Proceedings of the Indiana
Academy of the Social Sciences 3:11 (1976): 105-10.
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ENTRIES IN REFERENCE WORKS:
“Camp Followers;” “Mennonites;” and “Women Soldiers” in Spencer C. Tucker, Paul
Pierpaoli, Paul David Nelson, and James Piecuch, American Revolutionary War: The
Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO). [In
Press; scheduled for publication in September 2018.]
“Baltimore;” “Hinton Rowan Helper;” “Owen Lovejoy;” and “Pensions” in Spencer C.
Tucker, ed., American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection,
6 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013), Vol. 1, 123-24; Vol. 2, 899; Vol. 3, 1165;
Vol. 4, 1503.
“Vassily Zarubin” in Glenn P. Hastedt, ed., Spies, Wiretaps and Secret Operations [two
volumes] (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010), 833-34.
“Communism” in Robert Zieger, ed., Encyclopedia of United States Political History
vol. 5, 1922-1945 (Washington: CQ Press, 2010), 76-79.
“Walter Krivitsky;” and “Earl Browder” in Spencer Tucker, ed., the Encyclopedia of the
Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,
2007) Vol. I, 208 and Vol. II, 747.
“The Memphis Riot;” “Race Riots;” and “Violence” in Richard Zuczek, ed.,
Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era., vol. 2 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006), 400-
03; 505-08; 687-94.
“Earl Browder” in James G. Ryan and Leonard Schlup, eds., Historical Dictionary of the
1940s (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 2006), 59-60.
Four 1500-word essays on American Communism in Robbie Lieberman, ed., The Red
Scare after 1945 (New York: St James Press, 2005):
“Yes: It is now known that American Communists carried out acts of
espionage that threatened American national security throughout the
1940s,” pp. 84-86;
“No: The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA)
weakened the American Left during the 1930s and 1940s by its attacks on
other left-wing political groups and its obeisance to the Soviet Union,” pp.
102-06;
“No: The ties of the CPUSA leadership to the Soviet Union compromised
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and betrayed the socialist goals of the party; after 1945, the term
democratic socialism became an oxymoron to millions of Americans,” pp.
192-95;
“Yes: The main purpose of the CPUSA was to overthrow the capitalist U.
S. government and replace it with a Communist system,” pp. 229-31.
“James P. Cannon;” and “Earl Browder” in David J. Wishart, ed., Encyclopedia of the
Great Plains (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), 707-08.
“The Nazi-Soviet Pact;” and “Earl Browder” in Robert S. McElvaine, ed., Encyclopedia
of the Great Depression (New York: Macmillan, 2004), 123-24; 699-700.
“Eugene Victor Debs;” “Daniel De Leon;” and “John Pierce St. John;” in Leonard Schlup
and James G. Ryan, eds., Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age (Armonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe, Inc., 2003), 128; 129-30; 464-65.
(With Dorota Batog and Wlodzimierz Batog) “Poland,” in Rebecca Marlow-Ferguson,
ed., World Education Encyclopedia: A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide, 2nd
edition, vol. 2, I-R (New York: Gale Group, 2002); 1070-83.
“Earl Browder;” “Norman Thomas;” and “Robert Thompson;” in John A. Garraty and
Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999), 643-46; 521-24; 574-75.
“James Allen;” “Earl Browder;” “Sam Darcy;” “Simon Gerson;” “Gil Green;” “Jack
Stachel;” and “Robert Thompson;” in Bernard K. Johnpoll and Harvey Klehr, eds.,
Biographical Dictionary of the American Left (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986), 3-4;
48-53; 81-83; 153-55; 169-71; 368-70; 385-87.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:
A. SPONSORED PARTICIPATION:
May 11—12, 2012, Participant, “The 1960s: Legacies” Conference, University of
Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Funding: Texas A&M University at Galveston, 2012, $2600.
November 4—December 19, 2009, Fulbright Specialist, Ablay Khan Kazakh University
of International Relations and World Languages, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Funding:
Council for International Exchange of Scholars , $8400.
October 21-23, 2009, Participant, “(Mis)Reading America: American Dreams, Fictions,
and Illusions.” Polish Association for American Studies Conference, Pulaway, Poland.
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Funding: Texas A&M University at Galveston, $3000.
October 23-24, 2008, Participant, “The Past in the Present: The American Uses of
History,” Polish Association for American Studies Conference, Warsaw, Poland.
Funding: Texas A&M University at Galveston, $2500.
May 3-June 11, 2006, Fulbright Senior Specialist, Academia Swietokrzyska im. Jana
Kochanowskiego w. Kielcach (now Jan Kochinowski University) in Kielce, Poland.
Funding: Council for International Exchange of Scholars, $7800.
March 22-25, 2006, Participant, Sixth European Social Sciences History Conference,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Funding: Texas A&M University at Galveston, $2000.
October 23-25, 2005, Participant, “Conformity and Resistance in America” Conference,
Polish Association for American Studies, Opole, Poland. Funding: Texas A&M
University
At Galveston, $1652.
June 15-17, 2005, Participant, “Who’s the Boss? Leadership and Democratic Culture in
America” Conference, Netherlands American Studies Association, Middelburg, The
Netherlands. Funding: Texas A&M University at Galveston, $1900.
October 17-20, 2004, Participant, “American Freedoms, American (Dis) Orders”
Conference, Polish Association for American Studies, Warsaw, Poland. Funding: Texas
A&M University at Galveston, $999.
May 9-25, 2004, Researcher, Russian State Archive of Social and Political History,
Moscow, Russian Federation. Funding: Dean’s Research and Travel Grant, Texas A&M
University at Galveston, $7500.
April 15-18, 2004, Participant, British Association for American Studies Annual
Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Funding: Texas A&M University at Galveston, $800.
April 23-25, 2003, Participant, “Frontiers and Boundaries in U. S. History” Conference,
Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands. Funding: Texas A&M University
at Galveston, $697.
February 27-March 2, 2002, Participant, Fourth European Social Science History
Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands. Funding: Texas A&M University at
Galveston, $500.
April 4-9, 2001. Participant, “People of a Special Mould?” Conference, University of
Manchester Communist Party Biographical Project, Manchester, United Kingdom.
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Funding: University of Manchester, 100 Pounds Sterling; Texas A&M University at
Galveston, $500.
May 17-27, 1998. Participant, Faculty Abroad Seminar, Texas A&M University, Mexico
City Center. Program to establish TAMU collaborative research links with government,
Universities, and other Mexican organizations. Funding: full.
Six weeks, summer, 1993. Researcher, Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of
Documents of Recent History, (now the Russian State Archive of Social and Political
History) Moscow, Russian Federation. Funding: "Earl Browder, American Communism,
and the Question of Soviet Espionage," Research and Graduate Studies Faculty Mini-
Grant Award, Texas A&M University, main campus, $1000; Continuing Education
Development Grant, Texas A&M University at Galveston, $1000.
B. PRESENTATIONS:
“America, ‘Sweet Land of Liberty’ (Except When It Isn’t): Major Violations of
Due Process from George Washington to Barack Obama,” The 1960s: Legacies
Conference, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (2012).
“History of the American Communist Party,” “American Crossroads” series, public
lecture presented at the United States’ Embassy, Almaty, Kazakhstan (December 8,
2009).
“Reform Movements in American History” a special 4-week course for faculty at Ablai
Khan Kazak University of International Relations and World Languages, Almaty,
Kazakhstan (November 16—December 14, 2009).
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“The American Communist Party’s Critique of the United States’ Constitution,”
(Mis)Reading America: American Dreams, Fictions, and Illusions, Polish Association for
American Studies Conference, Pulaway, Poland (2009).
“Historians of American Communism Remain in Denial,” The Past in the Present: The
American Uses of History, Polish Association for American Studies Conference,
Warsaw, Poland (2008).
“Jeffersonian and Wilsonian Democracy” lecture presented to a political science class at
Academia Swietokrzyska im. Jana Kochanowskiego w. Kielcach in Kielce, Poland
(October 20, 2008).
Lectures presented as Fulbright Senior Specialist at Academia Swietokrzyska im. Jana
Kochanowskiego w Kielcach, in Kielce, Poland (2006), each given to several audiences:
“England on the Eve of Colonization”
“Bernard Bailyn and The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
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“Legacies of the American Revolution”
“Romantic Reforms of the 1830s”
“The Populist Revolt of the 1890s”
“The Twisting Path toward American Participation in the First World War”
“America’s Global Role after 1989”
“Why Is the United States In Iraq?”
“Tinkering with Totalitarianism: The American Communist Party’s Attempts at
Liberalization, 1934-1949,” Sixth European Social Sciences History Conference,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2006).
“America’s ‘Second Gilded Age’—Dire Prediction or Current Reality?” Conformity and
Resistance in America Conference, Polish Association for American Studies, Opole,
Poland (2005).
“Communist Party Leadership: Directions and Styles in the United States, 1932-1957,”
Who’s the Boss? Leadership and Democratic Culture in America Conference,
Netherlands American Studies Association, Middelburg, The Netherlands (2005).
“A 21St Century Look at the Memphis Reconstruction Riots of 1866,” American
Freedoms, American (Dis)Orders Conference, Polish Association for American Studies,
Warsaw, Poland (2004).
“A Call for Common Ground in American Communist Studies,” British Association for
American Studies Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester,
United Kingdom (2004).
“Along the Ideological Frontier: The Communist Party and the Limits of American
Democracy, 1919-1957,” Frontiers and Boundaries in U.S. History Conference,
Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands (2003).
“Socialist Triumph as a Family Value: Earl Browder and Soviet Espionage” Fourth
European Social Science History Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands (2002).
(With Wlodzimierz Batog) “Nationalism and Communist Leaders: Poland’s Wladyslaw
Gomulka and Earl Browder of the American Party as a Case Study,” People of a Special
Mould? Conference, University of Manchester Communist Party Biographical Project,
Manchester, United Kingdom (2001).
“Studying the U.S. Communist Party through Domestic and International Archival
Sources,” Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Mexican National Autonomous
University (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico (1998).
(With Mitchell F. Rice) “Diversity, Affirmative Action, and Multiculturalism in the
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United States,” Autonomous University of Queretaro (UAQ), Queretaro, Mexico (1998).
“The U.S. Communist Party and Foreign Archives,” Faculty Abroad Seminar, Texas
A&M University Center, Mexico City, Mexico, 1998.
C. INTERNATIONAL FILM AND RADIO APPEARANCES:
Texas A&M University Professor James Ryan’s views on President Obama and
American Foreign Policy, by Radio Kielce, on October 16, 2009. (Interview by Dr.
Bartomei Zapata, edited for technical quality and broadcast later that week).
Texas A&M University Professor James Ryan’s views on the 2008 U. S. presidential
election and its meaning for Poland, by Radio Kielce, on October 17, 2008. (Interview by
Dr. Bartomiej Zapata, edited for technical quality and broadcast later that day.)
A Spy’s Life: Kitty Harris. United Kingdom documentary film by Wheelwright Ink, Ltd.,
premiered in London March 15, 2005. (Interviewed and filmed by Julie Wheelwright on
August 28, 2003 in New York City.)
“Calling Agent Kitty,” Radio 4, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on September 6,
2001, from 8:02 PM to 8:30 PM. Presented by Mike Thompson, produced by Philip
Sellars.
D. JAMES RYAN’S WORK DISCUSSED ON AMERICAN CABLE
TELEVISION:
C-SPAN Videotape 178384 of John Earl Haynes, “In Denial: Historians, Communism ,
and Espionage” (Washington, DC: 9/25/2003)
E. NAME USED FOR PUBLICITY AND MARKETING:
Dust jacket promotional material advertising Gregory S. Taylor, The History of the North
Carolina Communist Party (Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press,
2009).
NATIONAL SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:
A. SPONSORED PARTICIPATION
Untitled grant to partially fund participation at the conference, “Reflections of the
Revolution: The October Revolution and Global Order, 1917-2017.” (University of
Montana, Missoula, MT, October 20-21,2017. Funding: Department of Liberal Studies,
Texas A&M University at Galveston. $2500.
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Untitled grant to partially fund participation at the conference “America’s Seminal Red
Scare: The U.S and the Perception of the Russian Revolution,” Frank Jacob (New York)
in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York office. Funding:
Department of Liberal Studies, Texas A&M University at Galveston, October 14, 2017,
$2000; Office of the Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs, Texas A&M
University at Galveston.
Untitled grant to partially fund a trip to San Francisco, California, to plan in detail a
historians’ conference, “100 Years of American Communism” with co-organizer Vernon
Pedersen. Funding: Department of Liberal Studies, Texas A&M University at Galveston,
July18-21, 2016, $2200.
Untitled grant to partially fund participation at the conference “Aging and Society: Fifth
Interdisciplinary Conference,” Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Funding: Department of Liberal Studies, Texas A&M University at Galveston, November
5-6, 2015, $2500.
Untitled grant to partially fund participation at the conference, “The Roosevelt Century:
TR & FDR, an International Conference,” Louisiana State University at Shreveport.
Funding: Department of Liberal Studies, Texas A&M University at Galveston, October
22-24, 2015, $2500.
Untitled grant to partially fund for research on African American history at the University
of Pennsylvania. Funding: Department of Liberal Studies, Texas A&M University at
Galveston, August 17-20, 2015, $2500.
Untitled grants to partially fund participation at the Society for Utopian Studies
Conference, Charleston, SC. Funding: Department of General Academics and Maritime
Studies, and Office of the Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs, Texas
A&M University at Galveston, November 14-17, 2013, $1416.
Faculty Development Leave, Texas A&M University, spring semester, 2011, full pay.
Untitled grants to partially fund attendance at the conference, “1935: The Reality and the
Promise,” Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, Department of General Academics
and Maritime Studies, and Office of the Vice President for Research and Academic
Affairs, Texas A&M University at Galveston, 2011, $875.
Untitled grant to partially fund indexing of the Historical Dictionary of the 1940s, office
of the Associate Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs, Texas A&M
University at Galveston, 2005, $2200.
Untitled grant to partially fund indexing the Historical Dictionary of the 1940s,
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Department of General Academics, Texas A&M University at Galveston, 2005, $500.
Faculty Development Leave, Texas A&M University, spring semester 2004, full pay.
Untitled grant to partially fund indexing the Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age,
Research Advisory Council, Texas A&M University at Galveston, 2002, $500.
Grant: "New Sources on Earl Browder and the U. S. Communist Party," Research and
Graduate Studies Faculty Mini-Grant Award, Texas A&M University (main campus),
1999, $1500.
Grant: Scholarly and Creative Activities Research Award, Texas A&M University (main
campus), 1997, $6500.
Untitled grant to attend the Washington Venona Conference, Texas A&M University at
Galveston 1996, $500.
Research Enhancement Program Grants, Texas A&M University at Galveston, 1996,
$720; 1995, $750.75; 1993, $500; 1992, $740; 1991, $700; 1990, $1928.50.
Summer Research Grants, Muhlenberg College, 1990, $2500; 1988, $2500.
B. PRESENTATIONS:
“The Oversized Soviet Puppet” at the conference, “Reflections of the Revolution: The
October Revolution and Global Order, 1917-2017, University of Montana, Missoula, MT,
October 20-21, 2017.
“The Youthful Earl Browder, the Russian Revolution’s Seductive Allure, and the
American Communist Party,” at the conference “America’s Seminal Red Scare: The U.S.
and the Perception of the Russian Revolution,” Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York
office, October 14, 2017.
“When the Old Left Was Young and the New Left Strong: Contrasts to the Aging of
American Radicalism Today” at the Aging and Society: Fifth International
Interdisciplinary Conference,” Catholic University of America, Washington, DC,
November 5-6, 2015.
“TR, FDR, and Marxian Socialism” at “The Roosevelt Century: TR and FDR: An
International Conference,” Louisiana State University at Shreveport, October 22-24,
2015.
“From Concealing a Separate Agenda to a Sincere Attempt at Utopia: The Communist
Party during the 1940s,” “Society for Utopian Studies International Conference,
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Charleston, South Carolina (2013).
“Communism Is Twentieth Century Americanism: Earl Browder and the Communist
Party’s Americanization Campaign,” 1935: The Reality and the Promise, Conference at
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York (2011).
"The American Communist Party and the Issue of Historical 'Objectivity,'" Guest speaker,
University of Delaware History Department,, Newark, Delaware (1998).
"The American Communist Party's Leadership During the Cold War: Robert Thompson
as a Case Study," Southwestern Historical Association Conference, New Orleans,
Louisiana (1997).
"A Different Kind of Moscow Gold: The Soviet Archives and the Changing
Historiography of the American Communist Party," Southwestern Historical Association
Conference, Houston, Texas (1996).
"The Soviet Archives and Earl Browder's Rise to American Communist Party Leadership,
1930-1934," Southwestern Historical Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas
(1994).
“Opportunity Lost: The Nazi-Soviet Pact and the American Communist Party,"
Southwestern Historical Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana (1993).
"Too Bold By One Half: The Underlying Causes of Earl Browder's Fall From
Communist Party Leadership," Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska
(1991).
"The Triumph of Salesmanship Over Ideology: The American Communist Party during
the Popular Front Era and Second World War," delivered at a Conference on Marxian
Scholarship, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (1987).
"The American Communist Party and the Spanish Civil War," World War II Conference,
Siena College, Albany, New York (1986).
"The Strange Case of American Socialism," Indiana Oral Labor History Project, South
Bend, Indiana (1981).
“A Communist Tests the First Amendment in Terre Haute,” Indiana Academy of the
Social Sciences (1976).
C. INTERVIEWED BY OTHER SCHOLARS FOR THEIR PUBLICATIONS:
Daria Solovieva, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, writing a thesis on
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the history of William Browder’s Hermitage Fund in Russia (telephone interview, late
April 2010).
COURSES TAUGHT:
U.S. HISTORY:
Survey: America to 1877 (numerous times)
Survey: U.S. 1877 to the Present (numerous times)
America in the Gilded Age, 1864-1901
History of Modern American Women
Twentieth Century America
The Great Depression and World War II (numerous times)
The United States After World War II (numerous times)
The Gilded Age (numerous times during the 1980s)
Andrew Johnson and Impeachment
The Progressive Era
Violence in American History
OTHER HISTORY:
Europe, 1763-1871
Europe Since 1871 (numerous times)
The Twentieth Century World (numerous times)
POLITICAL SCIENCE:
Introduction to Political Science (numerous times)
Introduction to Political Philosophy (numerous times)
Introduction to Political Sociology
American Government (numerous times)
American Parties and Politics
American Political Culture
Comparative Government (numerous times)
International Politics (numerous times)
Internship in Local Government and Law
Marxism in Politics
State and Local Politics (numerous times)
Texas Government (numerous times)
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS:
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Editorial Advisory Board, American Communist History
Fulbright Association
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Historians of American Communism
Texas Faculty Association (TAMUG campus representative)
National Education Association
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE--BOOK REVIEWS:
Untitled review of Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil
Rights in Philadelphia, by David A. Canton, Journal of African American History 102:4
(Fall 2017), 547-550..
Untitled review of The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left, by
Landon R. Y. Storrs, American Communist History. In Press, scheduled for publication
in volume 15:2 (2016).
Untitled review of Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of
U.S. Racism, 1928-1937, by Meredith L. Roman, Journal of American History 100:2
(September 2013), 565-66.
Untitled review of The Invisible Harry Gold: The Real Story of the Man Who Gave the
Soviets the Atom Bomb, by Allen Hornblum, American Communist History 12:2 (August
2013), 151-54.
Untitled review of Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations, by Charles P.
Henry, Journal of African American History 97: 1-2 (Winter 2012), 156-58.
Untitled review of Communism, Anti-Communism and the Federal Courts in Missouri,
1952-1958: The Trial of the St. Louis Five by Brian E. Birdnow, Journal of Cold War
Studies 12 #4 (Fall 2010), 190-91.
Untitled review of The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s by Hiroaki
Kuromiya, George Mason University’s www.historynewsnetwork.org/book (Posted
1/19/10 at 8:53 AM).
“Moscow on Lake Michigan” review of Red Chicago: American Communism at its
Grassroots, 1928-35, by Randi Storch, H-Net Book Review published by H-HOAC@h-
net.msu.edu (May 2008).
Untitled review of Reagan’s Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of
the Right by Andrew E. Busch, The Historian 70:3 (Fall 2008), 529-30.
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Untitled review of The Lives of Agnes Smedley by Ruth Price, Intelligence and National
Security 21:6 (December 2006), 1073-75.
Untitled review of Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals by Paul
Apostoliddis and Juliet A. Williams (eds.), Journal of American Studies 40:1 (April
2006), 159-60.
Untitled review of Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York’s
Crusade against Radicalism, 1919-1923 by Todd J. Pfannestiel, The Historian 67:3 (Fall
2005), 535-36.
Untitled review of Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars,
Reds, & Trade Unionists, by Gerald Horne, The Historian 65:2 (Winter 2002): 453-55.
Untitled review of William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism, by James
R. Barrett, Indiana Magazine of History 97:3 (September 2001): 247-248.
Untitled review of The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race from
Roosevelt to Nixon by Garth E. Pauley, Journal of Negro History 86:3 (Summer 2001)
372-74.
“One Group’s Liberation; Everybody’s Freedom,” a review of The Cry Was Unity:
Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936, by Mark Solomon, H-Pol, H-Net
Reviews, October 2000) URL http://www.h-
net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29076971982806.
Untitled review of The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America-the Stalin Era, by
Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, Journal of American History 86: 4 (March
2000): 1043-1044.
Untitled review of Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill
District, 1917-1921, by Charles H. McCormick, American Historical Review 104:5
(December 1999): 1699-1700.
“Moscow Treasures,” a review of The Secret World of American Communism, by Harvey
Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Review of Politics 58: 4 (Fall
1996): 838-840.
“The Reds of the U.S.A.,” a review of The Heyday of American Communism, by Harvey
Klehr, Review of Politics 47:3 (July 1985): 451-454.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE—OTHER:
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Finishing Presidency of the Historians of American Communism, due to term limits,
2017.
Member, Fulbright Specialist Program Peer Review Committee, April-May 2017.
Conference Program finalized in 2017 by recruiting most of the world’s leading scholars
in the field, 100 Years of American Communism, sponsored by the Historians of
American Communism and the Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy at
Williams College, Williamstown, MA. Event scheduled for November 9-10, 2018.
Initial work to bring a Polish historian to the Department of Liberal Studies, first for an
interview, and then, hopefully, as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence. I did my work on the
project in 2014 and 2015. After I could not master the Fulbright software in 2014, Dr.
JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz took over leadership of the project in 2015.
Initial work and considerable progress in 2016 with Professor Vernon Pederson, United
Arab Emirates, on putting together an international scholarly conference to commemorate
scholarship on the American Communist Party, in time for the 100th anniversary of its
founding in 1919. Professor Katherine Sibley, Chair, Department of History, St. Joseph’s
University, added in 2015.
Member, Fulbright Specialist Program History Peer Review Committee, 2013—2014.
Anonymous evaluator, promotion of Dr. Toby Bates, Mississippi State University-
Meridian, September 2013.
Anonymous referee for a submission to the Journal of Cold War Studies, “Where is Juliet
Stuart Poyntz? Gendered Narratives in Anti-Stalinism and Anti-Communism,”
November 2012.
Anonymous evaluator, third year review of Dr. Toby Bates, Mississippi State University-
Meridian, September 2012.
Anonymous referee for a submission to the Journal of American History, “McCarthyism,
Assimilation, and Anti-Semitism,” August 2012.
Anonymous referee for a submission to the Australian Journal of Politics and History,
“Finding his Kronstadt: Howard Fast, 1956, and American Communism,” August 2011.
Member, Fulbright Specialist Program Peer Review Committee, 2010--2012.
President, Historians of American Communism, 2012—present.
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Vice President and President-Elect, Historians of American Communism, 2010--2011.
Anonymous referee for a submission to American Communist History, “Better Red than
Dead?: Liberals and Communists in Gastonia’s Loray Mill Strike,” October 2010.
Live Public Presentation (by invitation), “History of the American Communist Party,”
public lecture presented at the United States’ Embassy, Almaty, Kazakhstan, December
16, 2009.
Member, Fulbright Selection Committee, United States Embassy, Almaty, Kazakhstan,
December 7 & 8, 2009.
Anonymous referee for a book submission to the University of Illinois Press, “Marine
Work,” November 2009.
Anonymous referee for a submission to American Communist History, “‘A Blot upon
Liberty’: McCarthyism, Dr. Barsky and the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee,” June
2009.
Anonymous referee for a submission to the Journal of Cold War Studies, “Getting
‘Delisted’: Legal Challenges to the American ‘Attorney General’s List of Subversive
Activities,’ 1951-1974,” January 2008.
Anonymous referee for a submission to American Communist History, “The Communist
Party, Cooptation, and Spanish Republican Aid” (second official consideration),
November 2007.
Anonymous referee for a submission to Labor History, “American Communism Moves
South,” March 2007.
Anonymous referee for a submission to American Communist History, “Servants of Two
Masters: The Dilemma of Grassroots Communist Leaders in the Cloakmakers’ Strike of
1926,” January 2007.
Anonymous referee for a submission to American Communist History, “The Communist
Party, Cooptation, and Spanish Republican Aid,” January 2007.
Anonymous referee for a submission to the Journal of Policy History, “Reds and Relief:
Unemployed Councils and the Creation of the Temporary Emergency Relief
Administration,” summer 2006.
Member, review panel for the NEA's higher education journal, Thought & Action, 2005-
09; 1997-2000.
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Anonymous referee for a submission to American Communist History, “From ‘Stooge’ to
‘Czar’: Judge Landis, the Daily Worker, and the Integration of Baseball, ” summer 2005.
Anonymous referee, for a submission to Labor History, “Did They Stand Fast? The Role
of the Trotskyists in the United Auto Workers, 1939-1949,” autumn 2004.
Anonymous referee, for a contract proposal with University Press of America, “The
Education of Junius Scales: One Man’s Struggles with Communism and Anticommunism
in the Early Cold War,” autumn 2004.
Anonymous referee, for a submission to American Communist History, “Bishop Brown:
the Forgotten Bolshevik,” spring 2004.
Candidate (in a two-person field) for President, Historians of American Communism,
2003.
Anonymous referee for a submission to American Communist History, “Pariahs in
Polonia: A Brief Account of Poles and Polish Americans in the American Socialist and
the Communist Party, 1919-1947 Movements” [sic.], spring 2003.
Anonymous referee for a submission to American Communist History, “The Founders of
American Anti-Communism,” 2003.
Member, advisory board, H-HOAC, H-Net (part of H-Net’s peer-review process), 2003-
present.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, American Communist History (a refereed, scholarly
journal), 2001-present.
Referee for John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, “The Historiography of American
Communism: An Unsettled Field,” Labour History Review 68 no. 11 (April 2003), 61-79.
Vice President, Gulf Coast Chapter, Texas Faculty Association, 1998-2000.
Member, Executive Committee, Texas Faculty Association, 1997-2003.
Member, Political and Social Action Committee, Texas Faculty Association, 1997-2000.
Outside referee for the third edition of America and its Peoples by Martin, Roberts,
Mintz, McMurray, and Jones (Addison, Wesley, Longman Publishers, 1997).
Session chair, East Texas Historical Association spring meeting, Galveston, Texas, 1997.
Delegate, Texas Faculty Association state convention, Austin, 2007; 2004; 2003; 2002;
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2001; 2000; 1998; 1997; San Antonio, 1999; Houston, 1996.
Central Committee member, Historians of American Communism, 1995-2003.
Panel chair and discussant, Southwestern Historical Association Conference, Dallas,
Texas, 1995.
Banquet speaker, American Political History Conference, University of Notre Dame,
South Bend, Indiana, 1995.
Anonymous referee for a manuscript on Neo-Marxism for a tenure decision at Allentown
College (Allentown, PA), 1988.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE--TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY (MAIN CAMPUS):
Member, Faculty Development Leave Committee, 2017--present
Member, Academic Civil Rights Investigation Committee, 2012—2015.
Member, Study Abroad Program Policy Committee, 2007-10.
Member, University Tenure Mediation Committee, 2007-10.
Member, University Grievance Committee, 2007-10.
Faculty Senator, 2004-2006.
Member, University Grievance Committee, 2003-2005.
Member, University Tenure Mediation Committee, 2001-2004.
Member, review panel, Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities, 1999-
2001.
Member, Faculty Development Leave Committee, 1997-2000.
Faculty Senator, 1997-1999.
Member, Academic Affairs Committee; Caucus Leaders'
Committee; Election Committee; Bylaws Committee;
International Programs Subcommittee.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE--TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON:
Member, Sociology Search Committee, 2016.-2017
Member, Post-Tenure Review Rubric Committee, 2016.
Member, Political Scientist Search Committee, 2015—present..
Chair, Committee to Hire an Interdisciplinary Faculty Member, 2014.
Member, Department of General Academics’ Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2013—
2014.
Chair, Department of General Academics’ Department Head Search Committee, 2013.
Chair, Department of General Academics’ Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2012—
2013.
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Chair, Department of General Academics’ ad hoc Committee to Evaluate Student
Opinionnaires of the Faculty, 2011.
Chair, Department of General Academics’ Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2010.
Member, ad hoc Committee to consider the promotion of Dr. Donald E. Willett, 2009.
Member, Conduct Appeals Board, 2007
Chair, Philosophy Search Committee, 2007.
Member, TAMUG Study Abroad Committee, 2006-07.
Member, Galveston Aggie Honor Council, 2006-07.
Member, Departmental ad hoc Committee to (re)consider the tenure and promotion of Dr.
Frederic Pearl, 2006.
Member, Departmental ad hoc Committee to consider the tenure and promotion of Dr.
Daniel Traber, 2006.
Chair, Departmental ad hoc Committee to consider the tenure and promotion of Dr. Carol
Cotton, 2006.
Member Departmental ad hoc Committee to consider the tenure and promotion of Dr.
Frederic Pearl, 2005.
Member, Departmental ad hoc Committee to consider the tenure and promotion of Dr.
Samuel Mark, 2005.
Member, Campus Energy Conservation Committee, 2005-06.
Member. Galveston Aggie Honor Council, 2004-05.
Member, Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, 2002.
Member, Evaluation Guidelines Committee, 2001.
Member, Departmental Head Search Committee, 2001.
Chair, Archaeology/Anthropology Search Committee, 2001.
Member, Faculty Advisory Council, 1997-2000.
Member, Departmental Head Search Committee, 1997-98.
Member, Student Mentor Program, 1996-98.
Member, Research Advisory Council, 1996-98.
Member, Library Book Selection Committee, 1997-98.
Member, Scholarship and Awards Committee, 1996-97.
Member, ad hoc Committee on Evaluating Department of General Academics’ Teaching
and Research, 1996-97.
Member, Texas Sesquicentennial Scholarship Committee, 1996.
Member, Dean's Distance Learning Task Force, 1996-97.
Faculty sponsor, Snow Ski Club, 1995-96.
Member, Employee of the Month Award Committee, 1996.
Member, Campus Director of Multicultural Services Screening Committee, 1996.
Member, Library Committee, 1995-96.
Member, Committee on Galveston/College Station Coordination, 1992-93.
Member, Employee Assistance Program Advisory Committee, 1991.
NON-MONETARY AWARDS:
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Subject of biographical record in:
Marquis Who’s Who in American Education, 2005; 2007.
Marquis Who's Who in America, 1998-2004
Contemporary Authors, 1999.
International Authors and Writers Who's Who, 1997.
Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 1996; 2000.
Marquis Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1995-2001.
Directory of American Scholars, 2001-present.
The Writers Directory, 2002.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA
9/87—5/90
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of History and Politics
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
1/85—6/85
EDUCATION:
MA and Ph.D. in History, University of Notre Dame; BA and MA in History, University
of Delaware.
REFERENCES:
Dr. John Earl Haynes
Manuscript Historian, 20th Century Political History, retired.
The Library of Congress
Fax: (202) 707- 6336..
Dr. Harvey Klehr
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor emeritus of Politics & History
Department of Political Science
Emory University
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Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Dr. Vernon L. Pedersen
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Student Services
Montana State University-Great Falls
College of Technology
2100 16th Avenue South
Great Falls, Montana 59405
Dr. James R. Barrett
Professor and Chair
Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
309 Gregory Hall
810 Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Dr. Raymond Wolters
Keith Professor of History
Department of History
Munroe Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716-254
Mr. Malcolm M. McDonald
Director Emeritus
University of Alabama Press
Box 870380
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380
KNOWN CITATIONS OF REFEREED PUBLICATIONS BY JAMES G. RYAN:
Publication: “A Final Stab at Insurrection: The American Communist Party, 1928-1934” in
Matthew Worley, ed., In Search of Revolution: International Communist Parties in the Third
Period (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003), 203-19.
Citations:
Jacob Zumoff, The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929 (Leiden:
Brill, 2014), 365 (text); 12, 153, 365 (notes); 402 (bibliography); 437 (index).
Publication: “Socialist Triumph as a Family Value: Earl Browder and Soviet Espionage,”
American Communist History 1:2 (December 2002): 125-142.
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Citations:
Eric Arnesen, “Civil Rights and the Cold War at Home: Postwar Activism, Anti-
Communism, and the Decline of the Left,” American Communist History 11 No. 1
(2012), 30 (notes).
Bryan D. Palmer, “Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism,”
American Communist History 2:2 (December 2003): 160 (notes).
Publication: Earl Browder: The Failure of American Communism (Tuscaloosa and London:
The University of Alabama Press, 1997).
Citations:
Lara Vapnek, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary (Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 2015), 201; 204; 211 (notes).
William D. Pederson, A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt (Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-
Blackwell, 2011), 727 (bibliography).
Katherine A.S. Sibley, Red Spies in America (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
2004), 45; 88 (text); 265; 266; 275; 277 (notes); 341 (bibliography).
Bryan D. Palmer,“Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism,”
American Communist History 2:2 (December 2003), 154; 171 (notes).
Anders Lewis and John Braeman, “The American Federation of Labor and Cold War
Anti-Communism,” Continuity: A Journal of History 26 (Spring 2003), 117 (notes).
Katherine A.S. Sibley, “Soviet Military-Industrial Espionage in the United States and the
Emergence of an Espionage Paradigm in U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1941-45,” American
Communist History 2:1 (June 2003), 28 and 33 (notes).
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage
(San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003), 60 (text); 261 (notes); 312 (index).
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, “The Historiography of American Communism: An
Unsettled Field,” Labour History Review [United Kingdom] 68:1 (April 2003), 71 (text);
77 (notes).
Wlodzimierz Batog, Wywrotowcy? Komunistyczna Partia USA We Wczesnym Okresie
Zimnej Wojny (1945-1954) (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo TRIO, 2003), 8 (text), 9; 36; 42;
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43 (notes); 146 (text and notes); 250 (bibliography).
Neil Redfern, “A British Version of “Browderism”: British Communists and the Teheran
Conference of 1943,” Science and Society 66:3 (Fall 2002), 360-80 (text and notes).
Jerrold and Leona Schecter, Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed
American History (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2002), bibliography, 8. (The
bibliography is at www.sacred-secrets.com.)
Robert W. Cherny, “Prelude to the Popular Front: The Communist Party in California,
1931-1935,” American Communist History 1:1 (June 2002), 7 (text); 15; 16; 39 (notes).
John McIlroy and Alan Campbell, “Nina Ponomareva’s Hats”: The New Revisionism, the
Communist International, and the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920-1930,
Labour/LeTravail, 49 (Spring 2002), 148 (notes).
Kathryn S. Olmstead, Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 217; 254 (notes).
Wlodzimierz Batog, ,,Droga renegata”. Kariera I poglady Earla Browdera, sekretarza
generalnego Komunistycznej Partii Stanow Zjednoczonych, 1930-1945 Dzieje Najnowsze
33:4 (2001), 38; 40; 41; 43; 47; 53 (text and notes).
Gerald Horne, Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds,
& Trade Unionists (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001), 252 (notes).
Igor Damaskin with Geoffrey Elliott, Kitty Harris: The Spy with Seventeen Names
(London: St. Ermin’s Press, 2001), 9 (Acknowledgments); 36 and 42 (text).
John Earl Haynes, “The Cold War Debate Continues: A Traditionalist View of Historical
Writing on Domestic Communism and Anti-Communism,” Journal of Cold War Studies
2:1 (Winter 2000), 101 and 107 (text).
Wlodzimierz Batog, ,,Komunistyczna Partia Stanow Zjednoczonych Wobec Ugrupowan
Postepowych I Wyborow Prezydenckich W Latach 1924-1948,” Studia Polityczne10
(2000), 214 and 215 (notes).
Thomas W. Devine, “The Eclipse of Progressivism: Henry A. Wallace and the 1948
Presidential Election” (doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
2000), 29 (bibliography).
James R. Barrett, William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism (Urbana &
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999), 206 (text); 302; 315; 319; 323; 325; 326;
327; 329; 330; 332 (notes); 351 (index).
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John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
(New Haven & Yale University Press, 1999), 436 (notes).
Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Boston: Little, Brown,
& Company, 1998), 455; 457; 458 (notes).
Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in
America-the Stalin Era (New York: Random House, 1998), 381 (notes).
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson, The Soviet World of American
Communism (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1998), 36; 94; 367 (notes).
Sam Tanenhaus, “Keeping the Faith,” New York Review of Books (June 25, 1998), 48
(notes).
Publication: “The Memphis Riots of 1866: Terror in a Black Community during
Reconstruction,” Journal of Negro History 62:3 (July 1977): 243-258.
Citations:
Kevin R. Hardwick, “Your Old Father Abe Lincoln Is Dead and Damned: Black Soldiers
and the Memphis Riot of 1866,” Journal of Social History 27 (Fall 1993), 124; 127; 128.
(text).
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New York:
Harper & Row, 1988), 262 (note).
George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of
Reconstruction (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984), 206, note 27.
Altina L. Waller, “Community, Class and Race in the Memphis Riot of 1866,” Journal of
Social History 18 (Winter 1984), 243 (note).
Bobby Lovett, “Memphis Riots: White Reaction to Blacks in Memphis, May 1865-July
1866,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 38:1 (Spring 1979), 31-32 (note).
Publication: “The Making of a Native Marxist: The Early Career of Earl Browder,”
Review of Politics 39:3 (July 1977): 332-363.
Citations:
Cited in virtually every scholarly publication, literally dozens, mentioning Earl Browder
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between 1977 and 1997.